diff --git a/docs/refguide.xml b/docs/refguide.xml
index 7071de373..a37ddb462 100644
--- a/docs/refguide.xml
+++ b/docs/refguide.xml
@@ -3071,12 +3071,14 @@ seconds, respectively, between probes. <
default behavior, which includes parallelization.
does the equivalent of and sets the maximum TCP scan delay
-to 10 milliseconds.
+--initial-rtt-timeout 500ms --max-retries 6 and sets the maximum TCP and SCTP scan delay
+to 10ms.
does the equivalent of
as well as
-setting the maximum TCP scan delay to 5 ms.
+--initial-rtt-timeout 250ms --max-retries 2 --host-timeout 15m --script-timeout 10m --max-scan-delay as well as
+setting the maximum TCP and SCTP scan delay to 5ms.
+Maximum UDP scan delay is not set by or , but it can be set with the option.
+
diff --git a/nmap.cc b/nmap.cc
index f0354cf95..1eb0b3aea 100644
--- a/nmap.cc
+++ b/nmap.cc
@@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ void parse_options(int argc, char **argv) {
o.setInitialRttTimeout(500);
o.setMaxTCPScanDelay(10);
o.setMaxSCTPScanDelay(10);
+ // No call to setMaxUDPScanDelay because of rate-limiting and unreliability
o.setMaxRetransmissions(6);
} else if (*optarg == '5' || (strcasecmp(optarg, "Insane") == 0)) {
o.timing_level = 5;
@@ -1344,6 +1345,7 @@ void parse_options(int argc, char **argv) {
o.host_timeout = 900000;
o.setMaxTCPScanDelay(5);
o.setMaxSCTPScanDelay(5);
+ // No call to setMaxUDPScanDelay because of rate-limiting and unreliability
o.setMaxRetransmissions(2);
#ifndef NOLUA
o.scripttimeout = 600; // 10 minutes